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A Call  for  Young  Men 


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Bulletin  Scries  X.  No.  12 

MAY,  1911 


Publisht  Quarterly  by  the  Trustees  of  the  State 
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The  Call  for  Young  Men 

D.  D.  HUGH 

Dean  of  the  Training  Department 


The  publication  of  this  bulletin  has  been 
prompted  by  the  growing  conviction  that  the  young 
men  of  the  State  do  not  sufficiently  recognize  the 
importance  of  the  opportunities  open  to  them  for 
employment  in  educational  work.  For  several  years 
there  has  been  an  increasing  demand  for  well-traind 
young  men  as  superintendents,  principals,  high 
school  and  grammar  grade  teachers,  directors  of  phys- 
ical education  and  playground  work,  supervisors  and 
teachers  of  art  and  manual  training,  and  teachers  of 
agriculture  in  rural  and  village  schools.  As  yet  the 
young  men  who  are  graduates  from  our  high  schools 
and  especially  the  young  mein  who  are  teaching  in 
our  smaller  rural  districts  do  not  appear  to  be  aware 
of  the  welth  of  opportunity  afforded  them  in  this 
work. 

The  opinion  of  the  educators  of  this  State  may  be 
gatherd  from  the  letters  that  follow.  These  were  re- 
ceivd  in  response  to  requests  for  information  upon 
this  question  which  were  recently  sent  out  by  this  In- 
stitution to  a number  of  our  graduates  and  other  per- 
sons who  are  holding  prominent  positions  in  educa- 
tional work.  To  these  were  afterwards  added  state- 


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ments  from  some  young  men  in  this  year’s  graduating 
class.  The  practically  unanimous  sentiment  of  these 
persons  is  that  there  is  a great  and  growing  need  of 
young  men  in  our  public  schools.  Only  one  gentleman, 
who  apparently  did  not  wish  his  letter  publisht,  wrote 
a frank  reply  questioning  the  wisdom  of  encouraging 
young  men  to  become  teachers. 

In  harmony  with  the  opinions  of  the  great  ma- 
jority of  the  writers  is  the  fact  that  the  State  Normal 
School  is  annually  receiving  many  more  requests  for 
young  men  to  fill  responsible  positions  than  it  can 
possibly  fill.  These  requests  are  growing  more  nu- 
merous each  year.  That  this  demand  for  young  men 
is  bound  to  increase  there  can  be  no  reasonable  doubt. 
People  are  getting  a larger  vision  of  the  work  of  the 
public  school.  It  is  no  longer  regarded  as  an  institu- 
tion for  giving  merely  the  rudiments  of  a literary 
education — for  teaching  the  A,  B,  C’s — or  for  im- 
parting bookish  education  of  any  sort.  It  is  rather 
coming  more  and  more  to  be  lookt  uoon  as  a place  for 
fitting  young  people  for  all  kinds  of  positions  in  life. 
It  includes  the  laboratory,  the  work  shop,  the  play- 
ground, and  the  school  garden,  as  well  as  the  recita- 
tion room,  and  for  the  direction  of  many  of  its  activi- 
ties young  men  are  imperativly  needed. 

Its  function,  moreover,  is  not  merely  to  help 
young  people  to  earn  a livelihood  but  to  inculcate 
high  ideals  of  citizenship.  To  train  young  men  and 
women  to  be  leaders  in  the  larger  social  work  of  the 
twentieth  century,  to  lead  them  to  realize  that  they 
are  to  have  a place  in  shaping  the  civilization  of  their 
age,  in  moulding  their  characters  and  in  inspiring 
them  to  higher  ideals  of  civic  usefulness  the  influence 


GREELEY,  COLORADO. 


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of  men  as  well  as  of  women  teachers  is  necessary. 

With  the  larger  demand  for  young  men  as  teach- 
ers, the  remuneration  is  increasing  and  becoming 
more  proportionate  to  the  service  renderd.  It  is  not 
claimd,  of  course,  that  the  pecuniary  rewards  of  the 
teacher  are  princely,  but  they  probably  do  not  com- 
pare so  unfavorably  as  it  is  sometimes  supposed  with 
the  average  remuneration  receivd  in  the  other  pro- 
fessions. In  some  of  these  a few  persons  make  a bril- 
liant success,  but  the  majority  cannot  expect  to  make 
more  than  a livelihood,  and  not  a few  are  doomd  to  fail- 
ure. For  the  young  man  with  natural  aptitude,  ade- 
quate training  for  the  work,  and  devotion  to  his  call- 
ing there  is  nothing  to  prevent  the  attainment  of 
competence  in  teaching  as  in  the  other  professions. 
There  is  now  a clearer  recognition  that  our  schools 
cannot  properly  accomplish  their  work  without  the 
influence  of  men  as  well  as  of  women,  as  teachers. 
Men  will  have  consequently  to  be  paid  sufficient  sal- 
aries to  attract  them  to  the  work. 

But  the  rewards  of  such  work  can  never  be 
mesurd  in  terms  of  dollars  and  cents  alone.  The  pro- 
fession of  teaching  will  always  make  its  strongest 
appeal  to  those  to  whom  the  contact  of  youthful  minds 
is  congenial  and  who  appreciate  the  opportunity  of 
spending  their  time  and  energy  in  a calling  which 
enables  them  to  make  their  lives  count  for  the  most 
possible  in  helping  young  people  to  attain  a richer  in- 
dividual experience  and  a place  of  larger  usefulness 
among  their  fellow  men. 

To  the  young  man  who  is  planning  his  future  and 
is  not  yet  certain  about  his  life  work  this  bulletin  is 
worthy  of  careful  consideration.  It  will  suggest  a 


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field  of  usefulness  which  you  have  possibly  over- 
lookt  or  the  importance  of  which  you  may  not  have 
recognized.  Take  time  to  read  carefully  the  opinions 
of  men  who  have  enterd  or  are  about  to  enter  upon  the 
work.  Consider  your  qualifications  and  aptitudes 
for  the  calling  and  whether  or  not  you  may  not  make 
the  most  of  your  life  by  devoting  it  to  teaching.  If 
you  feel  at  all  interested,  write  to  the  Colorado  State 
Normal  School  for  information  upon  the  subject.  We 
believe  that  there  are  abundant  opportunities  for  your 
servises  in  the  field  of  education,  and  we  shall  be 
glad  to  do  anything  in  our  power  to  aid  you  in  realiz- 
ing your  aspirations  in  this  direction. 


GREELEY,  COLORADO. 


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WHAT  SOME  OF  OUR  SUPERINTENDENTS  HAVE 
TO  SAY  ABOUT  THE  OPPORTUNITIES 
IN  TEACHING  FOR  YOUNG 
MEN. 

Opportunities  for  young  men  as  grade  and  de- 
partment teachers  are  generally  not  good  on  ac- 
count of  the  small  salaries  paid;  for  principals,  su- 
perintendents, manual  training  supervisors,  play- 
ground directors,  etc.,  opportunities  are  good  and 
stedily  improving. 

Boards  of  education  are  becoming  convinced  that 
in  order  to  get  good  men  for  these  positions  it  is  neces- 
sary to  pay  good  salaries.  The  outlook  for  young  men 
in  these  places  is  better  than  it  was  five  years  ago, 
still  better  than  it  was  ten  or  fifteen  years  ago. 

The  great  number  of  men  leaving  the  teaching 
profession  renders  better  salaries  for  men  imperativ. 
It  is  my  firm  belief  that  within  ten  years  the  salaries 
for  men  in  these  positions  will  be  excellent,  though 
not  so  high  as  the  income  from  law,  medicine  and 
commercial  occupations. 

J.  HENRY  ALLEN, 

Superintendent  of  Schools,  Grand  Junction. 

That  there  is  a growing  demand  for  young  men 
in  the  educational  field,  there  can  be  no  doubt.  Many 
localities  are  coming  to  see  the  advantage  to  the  boy 
of  having  a young  man  as  instructor  for  a part  of 
his  young  manhood,  at  least.  This  makes  a demand 
for  young  men  as  principals  and  as  departmental 
instructors. 

The  growth  of  the  industrial  idea  in  education, 


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together  with  the  growth  of  the  playground  move- 
ment, opens  up  lines  of  work  that  are  particularly 
adapted  to  leadership  by  young  men.  One  of  the  most 
important  departments  in  our  school  is  the  physical 
training  department,  presided  over  by  a young  man 
well  equipt  for  that  line  of  work.  The  department 
includes  the  regular  training  classes,  together  with 
the  playground  games  and  the  regular  athletics. 

There  is  a growing  demand  for  young  men  in  the 
educational  field.  D.  E.  CAMERON, 

Superintendent  of  Schools,  Fort  Morgan. 


Permit  me  to  say  that  the  opportunities  for  the 
several  positions  you  mention  have  increast  annually, 
but  only  for  those  who  secure  all  the  preparation  that 
our  age  of  practical  and  cultural  conditions  demand. 

As  Heaven  is  said  to  be  a prepared  place  for 
prepared  people,  so  is  the  teaching  profession  for 
those  qualified  by  natural  endowments  and  proper 
training  to  enter  its  sacred  gates. 

CHAS.  E.  CARTER, 
Superintendent  of  Schools,  Greeley. 


I find  it  rather  difficult  to  state  just  what  lines 
of  work  in  education  offer  the  best  opportunity  for 
young  men.  At  the  present  time  in  Colorado,  it  does 
not  seem  difficult  for  a young  man  with  proper  train- 
ing and  experience  to  secure  quite  desirable  positions 
either  as  principals  of  the  elementary  or  high  schools, 
or  as  superintendents  in  smaller  school  systems. 

There  are  relativly  very  few  manual  training  su- 
pervisorships  open,  but  on  the  other  hand  the  supply 


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of  well  equipt  young  men  for  positions  of  this  sort  is 
not  large,  and  it  does  not  in  the  main  seem  difficult 
for  such  individuals  to  secure  fairly  satisfactory  po- 
sitions. 

The  position  of  playground  director  in  the  larger 
cities  is  decidedly  new,  but  from  indications  there  will 
be  an  increasing  demand  for  well  equipt  directors  of 
this  kind  of  work. 

If  a young  man  has  scholarly  tastes  and  is  con- 
tent to  remain  in  a position  paying  only  a moderate 
salary,  I believe  that  a position  as  instructor  in  the 
larger  high  schools  offers  rather  more  inducements 
than  any  other  line.  I believe  this,  first,  because 
the  number  of  young  men  of  this  type  seems  to  be 
decidedly  limited. 

Second,  such  positions  when  successfully  fild  of- 
fer very  great  security  to  those  holding  them.  The 
administrator  in  all  small  school  systems  is  in  con- 
stant danger  of  undeservd  dismission  on  account  of 
reflections  of  local  sentiment.  This  seldom  affects 
the  high  school  teacher. 

The  salary  paid  for  work  of  this  sort  is  stedily 
increasing,  and  the  opportunity  for  a plesant,  scholar- 
ly life  should  be  most  attractiv  to  young  men  of  a 
certain  type.  C.  E.  CHADSEY, 

Superintendent  of  Schools,  Denver. 


For  the  past  twenty  years  the  spirit  of  progress 
has  been  almost  universal. 

The  science  of  Paidology  has  opend  our  eyes  to 
the  fact  that  teaching  demands  (1)  persons  possess- 
ing the  attributes  of  leadership,  (2)  men  and  women 


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who  have  been  traind  by  skillful  specialists  for  the 
calling,  (3)  persons  who  love  humanity  and  have  con- 
secrated their  lives  to  its  servis. 

It  has  also  emfasized  the  fact  that  a boy  or  girl 
entering  the  adolescent  period  needs  the  influence 
of  a normal,  high  minded  man  to  serv  as  his  or  her 
ideal  of  what  a man  should  be. 

There  is  a growing  tendency  to  establish  a grad- 
uated scale  of  wages  for  teachers.  This  gives  security 
to  the  faithful  and  insures  the  educator  that  his  suc- 
cess will  be  rewarded  by  continued  employment  and 
increase  of  salary. 

This  scheme  is  in  line  with  all  modern  industrial 
systems.  No  one  is  competent  to  direct  others  or  the 
affairs  of  enterprises  who  has  not  servd  his  appren- 
ticeship and  made  himself  familiar  with  the  details  of 
the  enterprise.  It  is  the  survival  of  the  fittest  in  its 
biggest  sense. 

I do  not  believe  that  any  field  offers  greater  in- 
ducements for  red-blooded,  skild  young  men  than  that 
of  the  public  schools. 

The  professions  of  law  and  medicin  are  much 
overcrowded.  There  are  scores  of  traind  electricians 
and  engineers  that  would  be  glad  to  find  stedy  em- 
ployment in  their  line,  with  opportunities  for  reason- 
able promotions.  I am  sure  there  are  just  as  many 
men  that  have  succeeded  in  the  profession  of  teach- 
ing as  in  any  legitimate  calling  that  can  be  named. 
Their  welth  is  great,  not  in  “slippery  dollars,"  but 
in  what  makes  a man  and  a nation  welthy.  I believe 
that  amassing  riches  is  the  smallest  part  of  a big 
man’s  life.  Even  in  that  respect  the  profession  of 


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teaching  is  looking  up  in  the  matter  of  pay  for  faith- 
ful servis. 

The  call  is  for  teachers  in  every  department  of 
public  education.  There  is  a demand  today  for  com- 
petent principals  and  superintendents  that  cannot 
be  met. 

I wish  more  young  men  would  appreciate  these 
facts.  PHILIP  M.  CONDIT, 

Superintendent  of  Schools,  Delta 

I feel  that  at  no  time  have  the  opportunities  for 
young  men  in  teaching  been  greater  than  are  now  of- 
ferd  by  such  positions  as  grade  and  departmental 
teachers,  principals  and  superintendents,  as  manual 
training  and  physical  culture  directors  and  supervis- 
ors, and  all  such  positions  of  an  educational  nature. 
Under  the  present  tendencies  in  educational  thought 
positions  of  this  kind  offer  boundless  chances  for  self- 
development and  individual  growth  and  achievement. 
The  personality  is  no  longer  bounded  by  the  position 
but  rather  the  position  by  the  personality.  Further, 
it  is  becoming  more  and  more  felt  by  people  controling 
these  situations  that  adequate  servis  is  entitled  to 
adequate  recompense.  The  realization  of  this  idea 
will  remove  the  financial  barriers  that  have  kept  com- 
petent young  men  from  entering  these  employments. 

On  the  other  hand,  our  schools  need  the  vigorous, 
masculin  influence  that  can  be  gaind  only  by  strong 
young  men  instiling  their  ideas  and  ideals  into  the 
system  at  these  points. 

SARA  B.  EASTERLY, 
Superintendent  of  Schools,  Gunnison  County. 


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STATE  NORMAL  SCHOOL, 


It  has  been  my  good  fortune  during  the  past 
twelv  months  to  have  had  the  opportunity  of  ob- 
serving educational  conditions  in  a number  of  eastern 
states.  Each  occasion  brought  the  realization  that 
within  our  own  state  are  found  better  opportunities 
and  conditions  for  young  men,  than  may  be  found 
in  any  other  state  in  the  Union. 

Colorado  is  rapidly  undergoing  a profound 
change  economically,  largely  affecting  educational 
conditions.  The  field  that  offers  the  young  man  the 
best  opportunities  is  to  my  mind  found  in  the  lines 
of  industrial  training.  Almost  all  departments  of 
school  work  are  full  to  overflowing  with  young  wo- 
men, fully  traind  and  equipt  for  the  ordinary  class- 
room instruction.  Necessarily  competition  is  keen, 
and  the  law  of  supply  and  demand  naturally  tends  to 
keep  the  wage  down.  Very  different  are  conditions 
in  the  work  of  manual  training  especially.  Every 
superintendent  knows  how  difficult  it  is  to  secure 
good  manual  training  instructors,  for  the  reason  that 
there  are  more  positions  open  than  competent  men 
to  fill  them.  Consequently,  salaries  are  better  and 
the  outlook  far  brighter  for  advancement  and  legiti- 
mate compensation.  Any  young  man  with  aspiratio  is 
for  the  teaching  profession  can  not  make  a mistake 
in  choosing  this  line  of  work  and  our  Normal  Train- 
ing School  as  the  best  place  for  securing  the  proper 
training.  GEO.  L.  HESS, 

Superintendent  of  Schools,  La  Junta. 


In  recent  years  the  wonderful  industrial  activi- 
ties in  our  country  have  cald  young  men  away  from 


GREELEY,  COLORADO. 


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less  lucrativ  callings  and  the  teaching  profession  has 
been  one  of  the  chief  sufferers.  Industrial  lines,  as 
was  to  be  expected,  have  become  crowded,  and  today 
no  field  offers  greater  opportunities  for  young  men 
of  character  and  thoro  preparation  than  does  the  pro- 
fession of  teaching.  Young  men  are  especially  want- 
ed as  principals,  manual  training  teachers  and  super- 
visors. These  young  men  must  be  willing  to  begin  at 
the  bottom  at  a low  salary  and  they  must  not  expect 
to  be  promoted  to  a superintendency  at  the  end  of 
their  first  year’s  servis.  With  the  coming  of  more 
men  into  the  profession  fild  with  the  spirit  of  loyalty 
and  enthusiasm,  salaries  will  advance  and  from  the 
ranks  of  efficient  principals  will  come  the  superin- 
tendents of  the  future. 

Manual  training  supervisors  are  always  in  de- 
mand. We  find  it  most  difficult  to  secure  well'  pre- 
pared men  for  the  manual  training  work.  Men  suc- 
ceed in  this  field  far  better  than  women.  It  is  a 
man’s  work. 

The  playground  movement  must  have  men  and 
women  as  teachers  and  supervisors.  The  demand  for 
men  in  this  field  promises  to  be  very  urgent.  In 
this  work  the  salaries  will  be  exceptionally  good. 

J.  F.  KEATING. 

Superintendent  of  Schools,  Dist.  No.  20,  Pueblo. 


The  poor  salaries  of  the  past  have  deterd  men 
from  entering  the  teaching  profession,  and  a dearth 
of  capable  men  teachers  has  resulted. 

A national  recognition  of  the  necessity  of  more 
men  in  public  school  work  has  occurd  at  this  time  of 


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insufficient  supply.  Wages  have  risen  proportion- 
ately until  the  properly  prepared  beginner  in  teach- 
ing can  command  a greater  salary  than  his  fellow  in 
the  other  professions. 

For  the  above  reason  I have  been  urging,  for  the 
past  two  years,  young  men  of  my  acquaintance  to 
seriously  consider  teaching  as  a life  pursuit. 

H.  A.  KEELEY, 

Superintendent  of  Schools,  Manitou. 


In  my  opinion,  teaching  as  a profession,  offers 
better  opportunities  than  ever  before.  Salaries  are 
going  up,  a better  class  of  men  are  going  into  the 
work,  and  educational  work  is  rapidly  rising  to  a 
higher  plane.  To  a young  man  who  is  willing  to  de- 
vote sufficient  time  and  energy  to  a thoro  prepara- 
tion, the  work  offers  splendid  opportunities,  not 
financially,  because  teaching  will  never  be  a work  in 
which  financial  returns  commensurate  with  the  re- 
quirements will  be  receivd,  but  it  offers  opportunities 
for  a comfortable  living  and  a life  fild  with  greater, 
better,  and  more  important  activities  than  any  other 
line  of  work.  I believe  the  demand  for  men  equipt 
for  principals,  supervisors,  etc.,  will  continue  to  in- 
crease, and  good  work  will  be  more  and  more  appre- 
ciated. HARRY  L.  McGINNIS, 

Superintendent  of  Schools,  Chaffee  County. 


Salaried  positions  seldom  yield  the  brilliant  fi- 
nancial returns  offerd  by  mercantil  and  professional 
pursuits.  But  these  examples  of  eminent  success  are 
conspicuous  because  rare. 


GREELEY,  COLORADO. 


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With  the  increasing  demand  for  men  for  play- 
ground directors,  manual  training  teachers;  for  a 
greater  proportion  of  men  for  principals,  high  school 
and  upper  grade  teachers;  with  the  opportunities  for 
personal  growth,  congenial  companionship,  social  rec- 
ognition and  great  servis  to  one’s  fellow  beings,  at 
a period  when  efficient  servis  yields  such  rich  har- 
vests, the  work  of  teaching  now  offers  opportunities 
well  worth  the  consideration  of  thoughtful  young 
men. 

The  public  is  acquiring  a better  appreciation  of 
the  worth  of  the  teacher,  manifest  by  better  salaries, 
and  more  considerate  treatment.  This  tide  of  opinion 
is  only  fairly  under  way.  The  prospects  for  young 
men  in  this  line  will  be  even  greater  ten  or  twenty 
years  from  now  than  at  the  present  time. 

M.  F.  MILLER, 

Superintendent  of  Schools,  Fort  Collins. 

Young  men  are  in  demand  for  Seventh  and 
Eighth  grades  and  for  Ward  Principalships.  For  the 
man  who  is  well  prepared  for  this  class  of  work,  pro- 
motion is  rapid,  salaries  are  good,  and  results  are 
gratifying. 

General  supervision  implies  an  intimate  knowl- 
edge of  grade  as  well  as  of  high  school  work,  and 
highest  efficiency  means  actual  experience  all  along 
the  line.  J.  R.  MORGAN, 

Superintendent  of  Schools,  Trinidad. 

I wish  to  say  that  there  are,  in  my  opinion,  ex- 
ceptional opportunities  for  young  men  of  markt  abil- 
ity and  training  for  the  teaching  profession.  The  de- 


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mand  for  such  men  in  Otero  County  has  always  ex- 
ceeded the  supply  since  my  administration  began. 
Especially  are  there  good  openings  for  capable  prin- 
cipals, departmental  teachers,  manual  training  di- 
rectors, teachers  of  agriculture,  and  superintendents. 

S.  S.  PHILLIPS. 

Superintendent  of  Schools,  Otero  County. 

There  should  be  men  teaching  in  every  grammar 
grade,  but  suitable  persons  are  hard  to  secure.  It  is 
+o  be  hoped  that  you  can  increase  the  supply  of  young 
men  for  these  positions.  It  is  important  that  they 
shall  be  co-operativ  and  patient.  So  few  are  willing 
to  take  the  time  to  grow  into  principalships,  superin- 
tendencies, and  directorships  that  it  is  well  nigh  im- 
possible to  get  young  men  to  do  grade  work.  If  one 
will  begin  with  grade  work  and  stick  to  it  patiently, 
genially,  and  with  absolute  faith  in  the  future,  he  can- 
not fail  to  achieve  ample  success  later  in  supervisory 
capacities.  Superintendents  and  principals  should 
always  travel  the  road  of  actual  experience  as  men  do 
in  other  professions. 

Yes,  young  men  are  wanted  and  there  is  com- 
mensurate reward  for  them  in  proportion  as  they  do 
better  work  in  the  school  room  and  help  our  boys  more 
than  can  women  teachers.  M.  C.  POTTER, 

Dist.  No.  1,  Pueblo. 

In  my  own  county  the  need  is  for  young  men  who 
are  expecting  to  stay  in  the  teaching  profession,  and 
who  are  not  using  it  as  a stepping  stone.  They  can 
command  good  salaries  in  time  if  they  will  only  start 


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with  that  idea — to  make  teaching  a life  work.  We 
need  teachers  of  that  kind  who  understand  something 
of  agricultural  pursuits  and  mechanical  arts. 

ROSEPHA  C.  PULFORD, 
Superintendent  of  Schools,  LaPlata  County. 


It  seems  to  me  that  students  and  keen  observers 
in  every  department  of  our  democratic  life  and  all 
those  who  are  activly  identified  with  any  one  of  our 
consciously  constructiv  institutions  must  feel  and 
recognize  the  fact  that  the  American  people  are  rap- 
idly putting  to  experimental  test  the!  protest  faiths 
and  the  cherisht  sentiments  of  the  latest  and  best  civ- 
ilization. The  true  citizen  of  today,  in  America,  must 
be  prophetically  loyal  to  the  immediate  future — shar- 
ing intimately  the  persuasiv  faith  in  human  better- 
ment and  progressivly  equipping  himself  to  meet  the 
larger  demands  of  expanding  and  new  profession  and 
engagements.  Rapidly  and  certainly  the  functions  of 
educational  institutions  are  becoming  better  defined 
and  more  urgent  in  the  appreciation  of  society  at 
large.  There  is  a democratic  demand  for  wider  servis 
and  for  an  intensity  of  servis.  Any  studious  inter- 
pretation of  existing  social,  political,  industrial,  and 
educational  conditions  enforces  the  inviting  conclu- 
sion that  the  teaching  profession  will  afford,  with  in- 
creasing financial  remuneration,  splendid  opportu- 
nities for  traind  and  efficient  young  men  as  princi- 
pals, grade  and  departmental  teachers,  manual  train- 
ing and  play  ground  supervisors,  instructors  in  trade 
schools,  and  superintendents  of  vocational  Schools. 
Communities  are  becoming  more  and  more  apprecia- 


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tiv  of  educational  values  and  discriminating  in  the 
matter  of  qualitativ  services  upon  the  part  of  teach- 
ers. School  administrators  are  learning  how  to  focus 
the  progressiv  sentiment  of  a community  upon  educa- 
tional problems  and  they  will  soon  voice  a very  vigor- 
ous and  democratic  demand  for  young  men  who  can 
perform  efficiently  the  newer  educational  tasks. 

WILSON  M.  SHAFTER, 
Superintendent  of  Schools,  Cripple  Creek. 


Permit  me  to  suggest  the  following  as  my  opin- 
ion regarding  the  opportunities  for  young  men  as 
teachers : 

1.  There  is  a demand  for  young  men  who  can 
control  young  people  without  friction,  teach  eighth 
grade  subjects  well,  and  wisely  direct  the  activities 
on  the  playground. 

2.  For  young  men  who  can  combine  the  teaching 
of  manual  training  and  one  or  more  high  school  sub 
jects. 

3.  For  young  men  who  are  able  to  organize 
commercial  departments  in  high  schools  in  the  small 
cities  and  assume  full  responsibility  in  the  manage- 
ment of  these  departments. 

4.  For  young  men  who  are  prepared  to  teach 
public  speaking  and  debate  in  addition  to  other  high 
school  subjects. 

5.  For  young  men  prepared  to  teach  high  school 

subjects  and  coach  general  athletics,  including  the 
three  popular  games — football,  basketball  and  base- 
ball. DANIEL  WARD, 

Superintendent  of  Schools,  Rocky  Ford. 


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I certainly  think  there  is  a great  need  for  larger 
numbers  of  young  men  teachers.  I am  much  in  favor 
of  men,  as  principals  of  grade  buildings.  I believe 
less  boys  would  drop  out  at  the  time  they  now  do. 
I find  efficient  men  teachers  a great  help,  in  my 
grade  work,  as  well  as  teachers  of  science  and  ath- 
letic directors.,  in  the  high  school. 

GEO.  M.  WARNER, 

Superintendent  of  Schools,  Canon  City  (South  Side). 


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STATE  NORMAL  SCHOOL, 


WORDS  OF  COUNSEL  FROM  YOUNG  MEN  WHO 
HAVE  GRADUATED  FROM  THE  STATE 
NORMAL  SCHOOL. 

There  is  a growing  demand  for  young  men  in  the 
village  and  smaller  city  school  as  principals  and  su- 
perintendents. In  this  part  of  the  state  many  of  the 
rural  schools  are  being  taught  by  men.  As  the  de- 
partmental feature  is  introduced  into  the  graded 
school,  young  men  who  have  had  a thoro  normal  train- 
ing will  be  in  greater  demand  for  the  departments 
of  mathematics,  history,  and  civics.  If  men  and  wo- 
men were  paid  the  same  salaries  for  the  same  work, 
hundreds  of  positions  would  soon  open  to  young  men 
in  the  upper  grades.  But  so  long  as  there  is  no  fixed 
standard  of  wage,  the  young  woman  will  be  em- 
ployd.  W.  L.  BAILEY, 

Superintendent  of  Schools,  Sterling. 

We  are  experiencing  a new  birth  in  education. 
The  traditions  in  teaching,  both  in  regard  to  practis 
and  the  subject  matter  of  the  curriculum  are  being 
replaced  by  saner  methods  and  more  vital  instruction. 
Old  time  practises  have  proved  themselves  inadequate 
to  prepare  young  men  and  women  to  meet  the  indus- 
trial and  social  demands  of  the  present  time.  The 
efficiency  of  public  schools  is  being  justly  criticised, 
and  patrons  are  insistent  upon  the  demands  that 
things  more  vital  and  more  helpful  to  the  pupils  be 
taught. 

In  order  to  meet  the  new  demands  on  the  pro- 
fession, teachers  specially  traind  and  qualified  are 
in  pressing  demand.  The  demand  is  for  young  men 
of  industrious  habits  and  sterling  integrity  to  occu- 


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py  positions  of  responsibility  in  the  public  schools. 
Possessing  initiativ,  broad  ideals  and  capabilities  for 
giving  vocational  instruction,  a young  man  does  not 
need  to  look  beyond  the  profession  of  teaching  to  find 
a field  wherein  his  ambition  for  achievement  may  be 
fully  satisfied,  and  wherein  his  efforts  will  be  sub- 
stantially rewarded  by  an  appreciativ  public. 

W.  W.  BLACK, 
Principal,  Victor. 


There  are  too  few  of  our  promising  young  men 
who  are  entering  the  teaching  profession.  Some  are 
making  the  mistake  of  their  lives.  There  is  a genu- 
in  call  for  more  competent  young  men.  Schools  are 
paying  for  them  as  never  before  in  the  history  of  our 
public  schools.  There  are  some  lines  of  work  where 
men  are  sorely  needed  even  in  the  grades.  The  de- 
partmental plan  in  the  higher  grammar  grades  offers 
an  opportunity  to  select  men  and  pay  for  their  ser- 
vises. 

I sincerely  hope  that  more  earnest  young  men  will 
thoroly  prepare  for  public  school  work.  For  the  good 
of  our  citizenship  we  need  more  strong  men  teachers 
and  I feel  that  he  who  truly  responds  to  the  call  will 
find  opportunity  for  advancement. 

W.  D.  BLAINE, 

Principal  Fountain  School,  Pueblo. 


The  increasing  demand  for  and  the  failure  to  ob- 
tain capable  young  men  for  principals  of  grammar 
grades,  supervisors  of  manual  training  and  directors 
of  playgrounds  is  an  indication  of  the  excellent  op- 


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portunities  for  the  young  man  in  these  various  de- 
partments of  our  schools. 

Especially  are  they  much  needed  in  the  play- 
ground movement,  which  has  been  taken  up  so  re- 
cently as  to  be  almost  wholly  unprovided  for  in  the 
matter  of  instructors,  yet  is  universally  recognized  as 
a very  essential  element  in  the  production  of  the  most 
useful  national  character  which  is  the  result  of  a 
sound  mind  in  a sound  body.  J.  E.  BURNS, 

Superintendent  of  Schools,  Berthoud. 


The  world  is  just  beginning  to  realize  that  it  is 
the  function  of  schools  to  teach  children  and  not  sub- 
jects. This  conception  of  educational  function  has 
revolutionized  educational  curricula,  methods  and 
ideals.  Prime  among  these  changes  are  the  new 
standards  of  requirements  for  teachers.  To  teach 
children  rather  than  subjects  requires  not  only  broad 
culture  but  thoro  professional  training.  To  compen- 
sate for  higher  requirements  on  the  part  of  the  teach- 
er, the  remuneration  of  teachers  is  moving  in  an  up- 
ward scale.  Today,  the  man  principal,  superintend- 
ent, or  supervisor  is  enabled  by  his  income  to  take  his 
proper  place  in  the  civic  and  social  life  of  the  com- 
munity. The  opportunities  of  the  school  executiv  are 
many  and  rich.  The  field  of  education  is  virgin.  The 
possibilities  in  trade  schools,  technical  high  schools, 
open  air  schools,  schools  for  defectivs,  schools  for 
gifted  children,  schools  for  retarded  pupils,  schools  of 
parental  character,  are  boundless.  All  such  institu- 
tions are  in  formativ  states.  True  it  is  that  in  the 
schools  we  alredy  have  better  administration,  and  in 


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these  special  schools  the  sociological  problems  of  the 
future  will  be  solvd.  So  to  the  young  man  desirious  of 
living  a life  of  efficiency  and  real  social  servis  com- 
bined with  great  possibilities  of  individual  develop- 
ment, no  field  is  richer  than  the  field  of  education. 
There  is  in  process  of  formation  a profession  of 
school  administration  and  direction.  The  young  man 
who  enters  education  in  the  next  few  years  will  join 
a profession  that  ranks  with  law,  medicin,  and  engi- 
neering, and  yet  is  more  significant  than  these,  hav- 
ing to  do  with  the  training  of  every  power  in  every 
individual  in  the  community. 

H.  V.  CHURCHILL, 

Principal  University  Park  School,  Denver. 


At  present,  there  are  greater  inducements  for 
young  men  to  enter  the  teaching  profession  than  al- 
most any  other,  for  the  demand  for  well  traind  male 
teachers,  at  excellent  salaries,  is  far  in  excess  of  the 
supply.  Law,  medicin,  dentistry,  etc.,  are  over- 
crowded. While  there  is  a more  general  demand  for 
male  teachers  for  all  school  positions,  practically  all 
manual  training  supervisors  and  teachers  are  men, 
and  there  is  a widely  spred  tendency  to  secure  a much 
greater  number  of  high  school  principals  and  instruc- 
tors and  graded  school  principals  from  the  ranks  of 
the  professionally  traind  male  teachers.  Such  posi- 
tions command  constantly  increasing  salaries,  and 
the  custom  of  making  the  tenure  of  office  much 
more  permanent  is  growing  E.  F.  EWING, 

Superintendent  of  Schools,  Colorado  City. 


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The  demand  for  young  men  as  teachers  is  in- 
creasing for  the  following  reasons : 

Grammar  school  teaching  is  undergoing  a change 
from  the  room-teacher  plan  to  that  of  the  department- 
al plan.  It  is  now  required  beside  having  a general 
education  that  the  teacher  be  prepared  in  some  one 
special  subject.  There  is  a demand  for  men  to  take 
charge  of  these  departments  in  grammar  schools.  I 
think  men  are  specially  fitted  for  the  departments  of 
mathematics  and  of  history. 

The  physical  welfare  and  the  playground  move- 
ments which  are  certain  to  bring  permanent  changes 
in  our  conception  of  school  duties  bring  with  them  a 
demand  for  directors  of  playgrounds  and  teachers  of 
games.  There  is  now  a demand  for  men  for  this 
work  in  conjunction  with  their  teaching.  This  demand 
is  certain  to  grow. 

As  to  principalships  (the  practis  is  in  city  schools 
to  promote  from  the  ranks  of  the  teachers)  th*  se- 
lections are  from  among  those  who  show  a high  order 
of  teaching  and  executiv  ability.  The  highly  suc- 
cesful  teacjher  has  another  opportunity  of  promo- 
tion, from  the  grammar  school  department  to  the  high 
school. 

In  selecting  teaching  for  the  life  work  there  is 
but  one  question  for  the  young  man — that  of  salary. 
However,  when  we  come  to  consider  the  stediness  of 
employment,  teaching  in  general  possesses  an  advan- 
tage over  most  other  callings.  A few  years  ago  nearly 
all  of  our  young  men  were  preparing  for  engineering. 
Employing  companies  inform  me  that  there  are  more 
than  a dozen  men  for  every  position  in  this  line  of 


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work.  If  New  York  be  taken  as  a standard,  it  ap- 
pears that  men,  because  they  are  men,  are  not  to  re- 
ceive a higher  salary  as  teachers  than  women.  Yet 
there  has  been  for  the  past  several  years  a steady  in- 
crease in  teachers’  salaries.  Beside  this,  a great  many 
cities  have  establisht  retirement  pay  or  pensions. 
Taken  all  in  all  the  financial  outlook  in  teaching  is  far 
from  gloomy.  From  most  points  of  view  there  is  no 
reason  why  the  work  of  teaching  should  not  be  sought 
with  enthusiasm  by  young  men.  v 

C.  A.  HOLLINGSHEAD, 
Principal  Wyman  Schools,  Denver. 


The  opinion  that  the  rapid  development  of  Amer- 
ican education  depends  largely  upon  the  superintend- 
ents of  smaller  cities  and  towns,  because  of  their  wide 
distribution,  and  the  influence  that  they  have  upon 
the  work  in  contiguous  districts,  is  becoming  so  gen- 
eral that  individuals  of  purely  academic  training  are 
no  longer  considerd  sufficiently  qualified  to  hold  these 
positions.  The  rapid  growth  of  this  idea  is  opening 
the  widest  field  of  today  in  educational  work  to  young 
men  who  will  specialize  and  prepare  as  carefully  in 
education  as  doctors,  lawyers,  and  engineers  do  in 
their  respectiv  spheres. 

AXEL  E.  JOHNSON, 
Superintendent  of  Schools,  Windsor. 

Of  the  fields  of  activity  open  to  the  young  man, 
teaching  is  becoming  more  attractiv  each  year.  Peo- 
ple are  recognizing  more  and  more  the  dignity  of  the 
profession.  The  movement  to  reorganize  primary 


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and  secondary  education  and  the  spread  of  informa- 
tion, giving  to  the  patrons  of  our  schools  definit  ideas 
of  what  good  schools  should  accomplish,  are  creating 
a demand  for  the  young  man  of  ability  and  training. 
The  man  teacher  is  recognized  as  better  for  the  physi- 
cally activ  departments.  Manual  training  and  play- 
ground supervision  have  made  but  a beginning,  and 
the  young  man  who  can  supervise  the  physical  train- 
ing or  direct  the  industrial  work  of  a school  has  an 
unlimited  field  before  him.  We  need  more  men  in  the 
work.  W.  C.  P.  MEDDINS, 

Principal  of  the  High  School,  Telluride. 

The  outlook  for  traind  men  teachers,  directors, 
and  supervisors  is  better  today  than  at  any  previous 
time  in  the  history  of  education.  As  a graduate  of 
the  Colorado  State  Normal  school,  it  is  a real  plesure 
to  commend  the  institution  to  anyone  contemplating 
the  teaching  profession.  Being  a college  graduate,  I 
was  naturally  prejudist  against  normal  schools, -but 
my  work  in  finishing  the  courses  of  pedagogy  and 
manual  training  in  the  Greeley  school  thoroly  dissi- 
pated my  bias. 

The  beautiful  location,  the  playgrounds  and  gar- 
dens, the  library,  the  laboratories  and  training  de- 
partments, together  with  a staff  of  able  specialists 
and  a Dr.  Snyder  at  the  helm,  combine  to  make  it  one 
of  the  greatest  institutions  of  its  kind  in  the  coun- 
try. The  student's  attainments  are  limited  only  by  his 
own  incapacity  or  apathy.  He  who  thirsts  may  quench 
it — tho  Greeley  is  a dry  town. 

V.  E.  ROWTON, 

Dept.  Man’l  Training,  Colorado  Springs. 


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Young  men  are  in  demand  in  the  teaching  pro- 
fession, but  the  time  is  past  when  there  is  use  or  op- 
portunity for  the  men  who  have  faild  in  other  fields 
of  activity  and  have  fallen  back  on  the  teaching  pro- 
fession as  a last  resort.  The  need  now  is  for  men  who 
will  definitly  elect  teaching  as  a life  work,  who  will 
give  themselves  a broad  training  for  the  work,  and 
who  will  bring  to  the  profession  the  same  energy,  the 
same  foresight,  the  same  business  sense  they  would 
expect  to  take  to  any  other  profession. 

The  profession  pays  well.  Salaries  are  growing 
beltter  for  all  classes  of  teachers,  but  big  rewards  are 
for  men  broadly  traind  to  meet  and  solv  the  problems 
affecting  the  entire  educational  policy  of  the  commu- 
nity where  they  may  work.  Low  salaries  at  present 
common  to  many  men  in  the  teaching  profes- 
sion are  due  to  the  fact  that  these  men 
traind  for  departmental  work  in  high 
schools  only.  This  field  is  small,  salaries  low, 
and  the  supply  exceeds  the  demand.  There  are  very 
few  pupils  in  our  high  schools. 

The  elementary  school  enrolls  the  majority  of  the 
pupils  and  this  field  is  broad  and  practically  un- 
toucht. 

Men  traind  for  superintendents,  principals,  and 
for  the  direction  of  departmental  work  in  the  ele- 
mentary school  may  command  good  salaries  from  the 
first,  and  the  opportunity  for  promotion  is  unlimited. 

J.  A.  SEXSON, 

Superintendent  of  Schools,  Telluride. 

The  recognition  of  the  wider  duty  and  almost 
limitless  field  of  educational  activity  is  opening  up 


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new  possibilities  and  making  new  demands,  the  extent 
of  which  is  only  beginning  to  be  realized. 

To  young  men  education  offers  a field  that  for 
variety  and  extent  of  opportunity  is  unexceld,  and  al- 
redy  ability,  preparation,  and  hard  work  are  receiv- 
ing prompt  recognition  thru  promotion  and  appro- 
priate salary. 

The  newer  fields  of  playground  supervisors,  vo- 
cational advisors,  and  the  various  forms  of  industrial 
training  should  appeal  to  men  especially,  and  it  is  here 
that  opportunities  and  returns  seem  greatest  at  the 
present  time.  GUY  C.  STOCKTON, 

Superintendent  of  Schools,  Eugene,  Ore. 


Of  course  there  are  untold  opportunities  for 
young  men  along  all  the  lines  you  suggest.  The  bound- 
less energy,  the  undimd  faith,  the  creativ  ability,  and 
the  Western  push  of  Colorado  young  men  render  them 
indispensible  to  the  virility  of  our  schools. 

On  the  playground  as  instigators  of  clean  speech, 
fair  play  and  helthy  ideals,  as  manual  training  di- 
rectors to  teach  the  nobility  and  manliness  of  useful 
handiwork,  but  most  of  all  as  principals  and  superin- 
tendents, the  school  needs  young  men  to  solv  the  prob- 
lems raised  by  the  conflict  of  modern  commercialism 
with  educational  traditions.  A vast  field  for  investi- 
gation is  opend  up,  and  the  work  of  leadership  de- 
volvs  upon  the  young  men.  The  rewards  will  be 
commensurate  with  the  servis.  Alredy  the  public  has 
begun  to  loosen  up  its  purse  strings,  and  no  expendi- 


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ture  will  be  too  great  for  results  shown  to  be  benefi- 
cial to  the  child  and  to  the  community. 

JOHN  J.  WARD, 

Principal  County  High  School,  Castle  Rock. 


Never  before  has  there  been  so  great  an  opportu- 
nity for  traind  young  men  in  the  teaching  profession. 
Superintendents  and  school  boards  the  country  over 
are  seeking  them — these  traind  young  men  who  are 
capable  of  meeting  and  solving  the  new  and  complex 
problems  arising  each  day.  They  are  being  sought  for 
as  principals  of  grade  schools,  as  departmental  teach- 
ers, as  supervisors,  as  grade  teachers,  and  as  high 
school  instructors.  Salaries  are  being  raised  and  the 
work  lessend  in  order  to  encourage  young  men  to  take 
up  this  work.  D.  E.  WIEDMANN, 

Superintendent  of  High  Schools,  Montrose  County. 


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STATE  NORMAL  SCHOOL, 


SUGGESTIONS  FROM  A FEW  OF  THE  YOUNG 
MEN  IN  THE  COLORADO  STATE 
NORMAL  SCHOOL. 

It  is  with  great  plesure  that  I refer  to  teaching 
as  a profession,  for  some  fifteen  or  twenty  years  ago 
the  occupation  of  teaching  was  scarcely  considerd 
dignified  enough  to  be  calld  a profession. 

Education  is  becoming  more  highly  organized, 
and  educators  are  working  with  more  uniformity 
of  purpose,  and  toward  a common  goal.  Men  must 
broaden  their  lives  correspondingly.  They  must  be 
able  to  meet  situations  that  come  up,  in  carrying  out 
this  great  scheme  of  education.  They  must  mingle 
with  the  world  in  order  to  teach  the  child  what  the 
world  demands  that  the  child  should  know. 

The  man  who  sees  this  larger  conception  of  edu- 
cation and  puts  forth  all  his  energies  to  carry  it  for- 
ward is  the  one  that  succeeds;  and  we  are  proud  of 
the  fact  that  in  teaching,  as  in  other  professions,  the 
weaklings  must  step  out,  while  the  man  who  does 
things  goes  on.  H.  M.  BROADBENT. 


In  whatever  perspectiv  it  might  be  viewd,  from 
whatever  standpoint  it  might  be  enterd  upon,  to  those 
desirious  of  a vocation  and  capable  of  handling  one 
when  obtaind,  the  profession  of  teaching  would  seem 
at  this  time  to  contain  a larger  proportion  of  advan- 
tages to  a smaller  number  of  disadvantages  than  any 
safe  and  regular  calling  open  to  men. 

Does  a man  desire  money,  there  is  enough  of  it 
to  live  on  as  comfortably  as  one  ought  to  live  when 
so  many  have  none  at  all;  does  he  look  for  social  po- 


GREELEY,  COLORADO- 


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sition,  there  is  as  much  of  it  open  to  his  enjoyment 
as  any  man  ought  to  have  time  to  use;  does  he  de- 
mand leisure,  there  is  more  of  it  than  he  can  obtain 
in  any  other  profession  save  that  of  doing  nothing  at 
all,  and  as  much  of  it  as  can  be  generally  utilized  by 
the  average  man. 

But  does  he,  more  than  these,  wish  to  be  absolvd 
from  the  degenerativ  influences  of  a lifetime  spent  in 
business,  useless  and  harmful  in  their  nature  and  ef- 
fects, and  does  he  desire  a lifework  in  which  he  may 
know  that  every  hour  is  expended  in  directly  neces- 
sary and  valuable  servis  to  mankind,  he  achievs 
such  as  a professional  teacher  of  the  young. 
He  has  an  avenue  for  the  transmission  to  posterity  of 
all  that  is  best  in  him,  and  every  possible  incentiv  to 
the  inhibition  of  all  that  is  worst,  thus  embarking 
himself  upon  a career  which  of  all  others  is  calculated 
to  induce  in  his  own  development  and  in  his  effect 
upon  the  world  around  him  the  greatest  ultimate  good 
of  which  his  natural  gifts  are  capable. 

SYDNEW  NEWNES  HILLY  ARD. 

I am  persuaded  that  the  opportunities  for  men  in 
the  teaching  profession  are  rapidly  increasing.  I un- 
derstand that  there  are  far  more  calls  for  equipt  men 
than  can  be  responded  to.  From  excellent  opportu- 
nities to  know  I can  say  that  the  Colorado  State  Nor- 
mal School  at  Greeley  is  second  to  none,  at  least  in 
all  our  great  Western  country,  in  every  characteristic 
which  makes  for  efficiency  in  training  both  men  and 
women  for  the  vocation  of  teacher. 


M.  R.  KERR. 


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STATE  NORMAL  SCHOOL, 


The  aim  of  education  should  be  to  teach  us  how 
to  think  as  well  as  what  to  think,  and  to  improve  our 
minds  so  as  to  enable  us  to  think  for  ourselves. 

I know  of  no  institution  which  affords  young 
men  better  opportunities  for  such  a development  and 
and  the  teaching  profession  than  the  Colorado  State 
more  efficient  training  in  the  manual  arts,  fine  arts, 
Normal  School.  W.  EARL  RICHEY. 

I have  been  in  the  Colorado  State  Normal  School 
for  four  years  and  know  some  of  the  opportunities  a 
young  man  has.  In  the  first  place,  he  has  an  oppor- 
tunity to  specialize  for  the  position  of  Superintendent 
or  Principal,  receiving  the  degree  of  A.  B.  in  Educa- 
tion. Places  in  this  work  for  the  specialized  person 
are  always  open.  In  the  second  place,  he  may  special- 
ize in  various  branches,  such  as  Manual  Training,  Art, 
Music,  Science,  Mathematics,  History  and  Sociology, 
and  many  others.  In  the  third  place,  he  is  coming  to  a 
school  where  athletic  competition  is  not  as  severe  as  in 
a university  or  other  colleges.  Every  young  man  has 
an  opportunity  to  enter  football,  basket  ball,  and  base 
ball.  In  the  fourth  place,  a Normal  traind  teacher  has 
more  than  an  even  chance  with  one  that  is  not.  In  the 
fifth  place,  the  Normal  makes  every  effort  to  place  its 
graduates.  Much  praise  is  due  the  Normal  for  what 
it  has  done  and  for  that  which  it  will  undoubtedly  con- 
tinue to  do.  GEORGE  P.  YOUNG. 

THE  LI3RA.RY  Or  THE 

0£C  9-  1938 

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